8 Tips to Structure Effective One-to-One Support Systems for Teachers
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The evidence is clear: effective teacher professional development (TPD) needs to include ongoing and individualized support to teachers in order to impact teachers’ instruction, and subsequently student learning. However, what is less clear are the details of what ongoing support entails at the system level: What should be the ratio of pedagogical leaders to teachers? How frequently should pedagogical leaders visit teachers? How long should observation and feedback sessions be?
To answer these questions, the World Bank’s Coach program has developed the “Structuring Effective 1-1 Support Technical Guidance Note,” which provides explicit advice on how to structure the delivery of ongoing support to teachers along a spectrum, which varies depending on the pedagogical leaders’ level of expertise and the support provided to them.